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Adolf Frey (composer)

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Adolf Frey (4 April 1865 – 4 October 1938)[1] was an American composer of German birth. Born in Landau, he was a pupil of Johannes Brahms, Immanuel Faiszt, and Clara Schumann. From 1887-1893 he was a musician to Prince Alexander Frederick of Hesse. He then moved to the United States, where he began teaching on the faculty of Syracuse University in the Fall of 1893.[2]

References

  1. ^ "MusicSack". Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  2. ^ Theodore Baker (1940). "Adolf Frey". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 4th edition. p. 361.